I managed to feed everything while it was cloudy. I gave some more to the callicarpa and some other perennials to help them out.

Having seen the rain coming in past my window panes while sheltering in the shed recently, I bought some silicon and managed to remember to do the job today. I’ve put a line across the bottom and down the middle brace. I couldn’t smooth the line behind the water butt so well, but it looks neat enough.

I’ve found a tunnel dug out from the woodland bed up onto Mr B’s path. Hedgehog maybe? The vole is tiny and has already made an enormous network of tunnels, so it can’t be that.

I pulled up lots of spent borage and cut back those that still had obvious flower buds to come. I put some cosmos and rudbeckia I’d been raising at home in the gaps. These aren’t the big cosmos; I’m saving those for when the onions come up.

I’ve put the anise hyssop into the end of Bed 6. The soil was dry and powdery and no doubt needs some more organic material in it. I probably need to get some of my leaf mould spread as mulch before covering the bed in the winter.

There was pond excitement as I was leaving: a damselfly laying her eggs in the hornwort. She stayed for ages and came back in the afternoon too. I also noticed that the poor loosestrife that dried up both have lots of new growth coming at the bottom.

The sweetcorn now has cobs on it, but the plants are so small that I knelt down to take this photo.

The teasel is now flowering. It does so in rings, so won’t ever be a full head of pink flowers.

The apple tree will get a bigger haircut in the winter. I had to unscramble a couple of branches that were weighing each other down to the ground.